City on the ocean sea, La Rochelle, 1530-1650 : : urban society, religion, and politics on the French Atlantic frontier / / by Kevin C. Robbins.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 64
• VerfasserIn: Robbins, Kevin C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, New York ;, Koln : : Brill,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Acknowledgments /; List of Figures /; List of Tables /; Abbreviations /; Introduction /; Chapter One A City in a Landscape of Islands and Frontiers /; Chapter Two An Introduction to the Power Politics of Sixteenth-Century La Rochelle /; Chapter Three No City on a Hill: The Rochelais Reformation Circa 1550 - Circa 1620 /; Chapter Four The Course of Urban Politics in La Rochelle and the Consolidation of a Calvinist Governing Oligarchy Circa 1560-Circa 1614 /; Chapter Five Transforming Civic Authority: Bourgeois Political Rebellion, Destruction of Oligarchical Town Government, and Popular Assault on the Pastorate in La Rochelle, Circa 1580-Circa 1614 /; Chapter Six The Advent of a New Civic Regime: Urban Politics, Religious Dissent, and Defiance of the Crown 1614-1628 /; Chapter Seven Counter-Reforming La Rochelle: Feudalizing the Townscape, Catholicizing Municipal Government, and Transforming Agencies of Police within Urban Society, Circa 1628-1650 /; Conclusion /; Appendix One /; Appendix Two /; Select Bibliography /; 1 Index of Personal Names /; 2 Index of Place Names /; 3 Index of Subjects /; Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-446) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004477608
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Kevin C. Robbins.

This important volume presents the first comprehensive history of early modern La Rochelle, a port town whose fractious residents became embroiled in the French Reformations. Opening chapters situate the Rochelais within the geopolitics of an oceanic frontier, where urbanites created a strong, heavily armed civic government, in part because they perceived themselves as isolated civilizing agents surrounded by the savage inhabitants of a lawless environment. Analysis of the city's Reformation proceeds within this context of place and politics, showing how various ranks of the citizenry idiosyncratically adopted the tenets of Calvinism, amalgamating these salvific doctrines with traditional civic rites and values - to the consternation of more orthodox pastors. Juxtaposing serial sources from multiple archives, Robbins shows with innovative detail how local political and religious struggles intermeshed, setting the city and its Reformed congregations on a fatal collision course with the Bourbon monarchy. Concluding chapters examine how great aristocratic families, churchmen, and Catholic magistrates joined in a local Counter-Reformation, remaking urban power politics from the ground up.